Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOPE DESERT GOLF CLASSIC (NBC, 6-7 p.m.). Such pros as Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus along with a flock of golfing celebrities join Bob in his ninth annual tourney, live from Palm Desert, Calif. Final round on Sunday...
Beyond the sound barrier, the main obstacle to commercial supersonic flight is the miles-wide swath of broken windows, cracked plaster, frazzled nerves and aching eardrums that might be left behind by sonic boom. Resigned to it, airlines are planning either routes over water and desert or subsonic speeds over populated areas. Either solution could cut deeply into the time-distance economies that could otherwise be gained by flying huge planes faster than the speed of sound...
Pacific students have held seminars on parapsychology and Viet Nam, traveled into the Mojave to study desert ecology. A comparative religion course came alive through visits to Catholic Masses, Seventh-Day Adventist services, even a Satanic Church in San Francisco. They can study anything they choose on their own, and no one cares whether they attend class. "I just go down there and holler at nine in the morning," says Math Teacher Ray Ditman, "and if nobody shows up, I go back home...
Drifting down the rivers from the hills come logs rigged with paper sails that bear Viet Cong propaganda messages to the U.S. Marines. More leaflets are strewn among the American dead on battlefields. All plug the same hard-sell theme: refuse to fight, desert to the Viet Cong. But lately, the Viet Cong are narrowing their sights. In an attempt to ride the upswing of racial disorder in the U.S., they are aiming their psychological offensive at the Negro fighting man. "Black G.I. in the U.S. Army!" exhorts one leaflet. "Twenty million of your fellow countrymen in the U.S.A...
...final note. List-making is a capricious process at best, and the selection of the last half is highly subjective. Billion Dollar Brain may be an oasis of craft in a desert of disjointed ill-conceived movies, but I can hardly make an objective case for it over Ingmar Bergman's Persona. An intense and deeply personal statement, Persona, to me, seemed largely an illustration of uncinematic ideas. Therefore, I didn't include it. But this was also the way I felt about Accident, and its selection over Persona simply indicates personal preference for Losey over Bergman. A point...